No news on a release date, but some of the features being discussed for WP 2.7 sound rather promising:
WordPress core updates – This is a feature many users have been waiting for, with core updates you can easily upgrade your WordPress versions.
Comment Threading – This feature will allow users to reply to other commentators in a threaded manner, where replied comments will display below the actual comment, WordPress already has the ability to scale to accomodate threaded comments, without requiring database changes.
Widgets for Dashboard and Write Box – This feature will allow users to re-arrange the widgets on the dashboard and write page to suit their preferences.
The threaded comment feature caught my eye, as this is relevant to SS!AB readers. I am eager to see what the WP team comes up with and how well it will work in practice. Many of the new features can already be simulated with existing plugins, but I prefer to hold off on certain features (such as tagging) until they receive native support. This is doubly true when I think the feature will eventually be integrated and I don’t want to have to do a conversion. There’s a sparse official list of features available on the Codex as well.
Edit: Here’s some news about the changes to the User Interface:
- Dashboard Changes: What the heck is Inbox? I’m a little unsure about this change, although having a Write Post area on the dashboard seems intuitive.
- Write Panel Widgets: Excellent. There are so many parts I don’t use, and it will be great to be able to turn them off and/or rearrange them. The categories are back on the sidebar!
- Navigation Links on Left: It eats up some space, but the tabs were getting harder to read (especially the part with all the plugin settings).
- Plugin Upgrades: It will be very convenient to be able to search for and install plugins directly from your WP-Admin area. It’s about time they added Uninstall support for plugin authors, so that users aren’t left with database kruft/tables after a plugin is deactivated/deleted.
- Built-in Sticky Support: I’m surprised this wasn’t natively supported before.
Overall these look great with some handy interface tweaks and the really nice upgrade tools for plugins and WP core files.
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They should fix the freaking recent comments plugin so I don’t get anymore of that “not found” shit. God =_=;
The threaded thing seems cool but when I have such a narrow reply area I wonder if that will become too messy
I am also a little worried about if the threaded comments can be limited in their… threadiness, so I’m probably going to wait a while before implementing that feature.
What recent comments plugin are you using? I have not heard of that problem before. Is it the default widget that ships with WP?
@Hinano
I fixed that by editting the plugin itself and removed the ‘not found’ line. Crude, but effective.
Oh well, non of the these upgrades concern me anyway.
PS I’m referring to the EasyIP2Country plugin by the way, assuming you’re also using that
The conversations between Jesus159159159 and Chris is the first thing that comes to my mind here. :P
In my job we implemented threaded comments on many of our popular blogs and some of them have really become glorified forums, so I worry about that a little. But mostly I just don’t want to to do the theming work for another element that isn’t already in my blog…
Thanks for the flowers but that might no be a good idea after all. I can already see SS!AB degenerating into a mess like this:
“I’m right!”
“I’m righter!1″
“I’m right-most!!2″
“g
r
r
r”
What about being right-justified?
It’d be nice if the threads could be collapsed; I like the Digg commenting system personally (in terms of usability).
Funny you should mention both of us in the same sentence, for together we are: “Jesus Chris
he won’t mind!)
tHARR HARR-*EXPLODES* (so yea, when you do mention us together *blush* like that , just use the magic word Jesus Christ!What? You digg collapsed threads?… well, if you say so! *takes out scissors* *cuts his threads* p-p-please don’t stare at me like that! Its embarrassing!
I’m “diggin” the idea of collapsed threads! But I also must realize that this is not a forum/chat! I’ll try to control myself a bit more!
oh, and before I forget! Thank you very much for this. I noticed it right before I went to work (btw, work is hard! I now know how Totali feels! How do you guys manage?!)
FOUR MOAR YEARS!!! XD
How about being justified and ancient?
I just go used to wordpress 2.6 …
The threaded conversations will be cool and I guess the core update will be good for those without SVN access.
Just a note tagging became native in 2.5 which is a version behind what you are running now
The new features sound quite good if used right… but man, I haven’t really been doing any coding or work of any sort since 2.5… as a matter of fact, barely any blogging since 2.6 as well T_T
I’m kind of mixed on the threaded conversations aspect. I can see the use for it in larger blogs but I can’t see how useful it would be for me at the moment. The core updates, on the other hand, would be awesome. That’s the one aspect of WP I hate, given how fast they’re releasing these versions sometimes.
I’ve seen some sites which had the threaded comments plugin before, and I honestly found it a bit distracting… and like Caitlin, I also think it’s not much of a use for blogs which doesn’t have much conversations to thread in the first place lol.
But w00t! for widgetized Dashboard. I’m using the plugin which enables that atm, glad they’re finally adding that feature
I’m excited for pretty much every thing on that list. Default sitemaps (already have a plugin) and subscribing to comments not so much, but both are still welcome additions.
Just updated the list with more WP 2.7 features for the (maybe) November release.
hi
btw, you can just try wp 2.7 on my blog: wp.blogywalkie.com. Use “test” as your password and username
this is very new, wp2.7 on my blog is prototype version. only few blogger has coppy of it,
include me. check it out guys!!!!
Hmm, that is pretty good, I like how you can move the various modules around.
The official post has a great PDF about the studies done on the previous and new interface!
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